Quran glossary · draft

صفح

discourse withdrawal

Withdrawal of continued address from an unreceptive audience.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: صفح

Lemmas: صفح

Forms: صَفْحًا

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

43:5

أَفَنَضْرِبُ عَنكُمُ ٱلذِّكْرَ صَفْحًا أَن كُنتُمْ قَوْمًا مُّسْرِفِينَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Most occurrences coordinate the action with pardon or forgiveness and direct people to leave faults unpursued; the cognate verbal noun can characterize this as gracious. In 43:5 the verbal noun modifies striking the reminder away from the addressees, preserving the same turning-aside profile with discourse rather than offense as its object. The compacted proposal was inspected as a candidate only and was not accepted.